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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Daley

Democrats face a gerrymandering armageddon. This didn’t have to happen

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‘The Republicans not only got it, but knocked out the one Democrat who did too.’ Photograph: Sergio Flores/Reuters

There are many reasons why Democrats find themselves on the wrong end of a gerrymandering armageddon.

There’s John Roberts and the US supreme court, who pretended partisan gerrymandering is just politics as usual, left voters naked to extreme power grabs, and failed the nation when voters most needed the courts’ protection.

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